MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — An Eastern Panhandle administrator alert bootless to acknowledge to the West Virginia Belief Agency that he serves as an administrator of a nonprofit “recovery-coach” training alignment that has accustomed added than $80,000 from assorted accompaniment agencies back March.

State Sen. John R. Unger II, D-Berkeley/Jefferson, and Martina Steiner of Gerrardstown, W.Va., organized Greater Accretion and Association Empowerment (GRaCE) in December 2016, but financial-disclosure statements filed in January 2017 and January 2018 fabricated no acknowledgment of the nonprofit.

Unger, who is listed as admiral of GRaCE in the West Virginia Secretary of State’s appointment records, filed an adapted banking acknowledgment account for 2018 on Tuesday with the West Virginia Belief Commission.

Unger, D-Berkeley/Jefferson, who is against in the accessible Nov. 6 accepted acclamation by Del. Mike Folk, R-Berkeley, said Tuesday night in a argument bulletin that he artlessly forgot to account his role in the nonprofit and apologized for the blank in commutual the acknowledgment form.

“I am acutely appreciative of the assignment of GRaCE. Back GRaCE became alive this winter, we accept helped alternation 400 accretion coaches, accustomed a arrangement of accretion coaches through the West Virginia Accretion Coach Association, and accustomed a statewide Blue Ridge Accretion Resource Center with over 100 accomplished accretion coaches volunteering to advice bodies in accretion and their families,” the five-term administrator said in the message.

“We abide to grow, with added bodies dispatch up anniversary day to affix those adversity with addiction to association in West Virginia.”

The Blue Ridge Accretion Resource Center and West Virginia Accretion Coach Association arise to be barter names for GRaCE, according to the West Virginia Secretary of State’s office. GRaCE additionally appears to be accomplishing business as Building Resilient Innovative Compassionate Communities, a analysis of GRaCE; Carpenter’s Apprentice, addition analysis of GRaCE; West Virginia Accretion Coach Academy; Building Resilient Innovative Communities of Kindness; and Jefferson County Accretion Resource Center, according to the secretary of state’s office.

Unger’s animadversion appear afterwards he was alleged assorted times back Sept. 11 by Herald-Mail Media requesting animadversion about his nonprofit work.

Unger appear in a Sept. 3 Facebook column that he started a new job with GRaCE.

Under accompaniment code, anyone who foolishly and advisedly files a apocryphal banking account with the belief agency or “knowingly and foolishly conceals a actual fact” in filing it could be begin accusable of a misdemeanor, fined up to $1,000 and confined for up to a year.

Rebecca L. Stepto, controlling administrator of the belief commission, said Tuesday that she couldn’t animadversion about Unger’s situation, but said in an email that “the actuality ‘concealed’ charge accept been a ‘material’ fact.”

“Whether a accessible official is a administrator or administrator of a nonprofit is an affair beneath the Belief Act alone if the official holds a position with an article that appropriates money to the nonprofit,” she said. “In the case of legislators, the affair of whether he/she may vote on a bulk is absolute by the rules of the House or Senate rather than by the Belief Act.”

In Unger’s banking statements, the West Virginia Senate and his assignment as pastor or priest of three churches in Harpers Ferry, W.Va., were listed as sources of assets that are added than $1,000 per year Accompaniment senators are paid $20,000 annually.

GRaCE has accustomed $84,298.72 in payments back March 9 from the West Virginia Department of Education, accompaniment Analysis of Corrections, accompaniment Department of Veterans Assistance and Blue Ridge Association and Technical College, according to accompaniment expenditures acquaint online by West Virginia Accompaniment Auditor J.B. McCuskey’s office.

Most of the accompaniment allotment came from a $63,191 admission accustomed by West Virginia Superintendent of Schools Steve Paine, according to accompaniment records.

The admission accolade was added by added than $12,200 over the aboriginal bulk for a statewide recovery-coach academy on “resiliency and (communication) skills” for acceptance and families who accomplished agony to abetment with mental-health needs in accompaniment accessible schools, according to an Aug. 13 grant-award notification.

The admission came from $1,939,520 in Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resilience Education) allotment awarded to the accompaniment by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Project AWARE grants advance adolescence mental-health acquaintance amid schools and communities, and are aimed at convalescent access to casework for school-age children, according to the agency’s website

The Analysis of Corrections has paid $16,975 to the nonprofit, and the Department of Veterans Assistant has paid $3,080, with the expenditures declared as actuality for training and development, according to the auditor’s OpenGov database.

At atomic two multiday training sessions, including one for accompaniment Analysis of Corrections agents members, were captivated in April and June at Blue Ridge Association and Technical College.

The academy paid $1,050 to GRaCE for training and development. The accepted training amount per being appears to be $350, according to balance records, but the June accident offered scholarships awarded by GRaCE and the Jefferson County (W.Va.) Health Department, according to a advertisement announcement the event.

The Berkeley County (W.Va.) Resource Accretion Center offers agnate recovery-coach training for chargeless to individuals who administer for it.

GRaCE additionally captivated training contest in Glenville, Parkersburg, Beckley, Huntington and Charleston, W.Va., according to balance records. A cardinal of the invoices account identical mileage, per-diem and abode amounts for Unger and Steiner.

GRaCE initially was based at Unger’s Williamsport Pike home in Berkeley County, but his adapted banking account filed Tuesday lists a Harpers Ferry column appointment box abode for the nonprofit.

At atomic two abstracted abstracts submitted to the accompaniment involving GRaCE account Unger’s abode as a aggregate of his artery abode in Berkeley County and the boondocks of Harpers Ferry, W.Va.